Lead Tester

Strait Sys Inc Regular

The Lead Tester provides leadership and oversight of software testing and quality validation activities for enterprise application modernization efforts supporting the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). This individual is responsible for developing and managing the overall testing strategy, coordinating testing activities, ensuring requirements-to-test traceability, overseeing defect management, and evaluating solution readiness throughout the system development lifecycle.

The Lead Tester works closely with project management, business analysts, functional subject matter experts, developers, security personnel, system administrators, Testing Engineers, and Government stakeholders to ensure applications, integrations, data, and system components are thoroughly validated against approved requirements. This individual provides direction to testing personnel, monitors testing progress and quality, communicates risks and results to project leadership, and supports Government acceptance and successful solution implementation.

This position is contingent upon contract award

• Lead the planning, coordination, execution, and oversight of testing activities throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain the overall test strategy, test plans, test schedules, testing standards, and supporting documentation.
• Define testing approaches for functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, accessibility, data migration, and user acceptance testing.
• Coordinate testing activities across application components, integrations, interfaces, data, environments, and releases.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to Testing Engineers and other personnel participating in testing activities.
• Review test cases, test scripts, scenarios, expected results, and testing evidence for completeness, accuracy, and alignment with approved requirements.
• Establish and maintain requirements-to-test traceability to ensure appropriate test coverage across business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with business analysts and Functional SMEs to define acceptance criteria, expected outcomes, business scenarios, and validation requirements.
• Coordinate with developers, integration personnel, database engineers, security personnel, and system administrators to ensure solutions and environments are ready for testing.
• Lead defect management and triage activities, including defect review, prioritization, assignment, tracking, retesting, and closure.
• Monitor testing progress, test coverage, defect trends, unresolved issues, and other quality indicators to identify potential risks to delivery or implementation.
• Evaluate testing results and provide recommendations regarding solution readiness, release readiness, and outstanding risks.
• Coordinate regression testing following application changes, defect remediation, configuration updates, and new releases.
• Oversee testing of migrated data to validate completeness, accuracy, integrity, reconciliation, and expected application behavior.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test preparation, stakeholder coordination, execution support, defect management, and validation of results.
• Ensure accessibility and usability requirements, including applicable Section 508 requirements, are incorporated into testing activities.
• Develop and provide testing status reports, metrics, dashboards, defect summaries, readiness assessments, and other testing information to project and Government stakeholders.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and schedule impacts and communicate them to project leadership.
• Participate in requirements reviews, design reviews, solution demonstrations, release planning, Agile ceremonies, and project status meetings.
• Ensure testing artifacts and supporting evidence are maintained in accordance with established project, quality, and Government requirements.
• Support production readiness, implementation, post-deployment validation, stabilization, and continuous improvement activities.

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• Experience supporting the Department of Justice (DOJ), EOIR, or other Federal civilian agencies.
• Experience leading software testing and quality assurance activities for enterprise application modernization or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing and managing comprehensive test strategies, test plans,…